Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly articles from September 2005

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly archives from September 2005

Treatment programs benefit from ties with therapeutic boarding schools.
September 5, 2005... With the beginning of the school year, some children will be heading to therapeutic boarding schools. These schools are not the same as residential treatment centers, but have a close relationship with them, and in some cases, treat the same...

'Business model' and good community relations lead to White House trip.(Treatment Program Profile)(Mountainside Treatment Center)
September 5, 2005... How does a treatment center get invited to the White House to meet with John Walters of the Office of National Drug Control Policy? A combination of a sound business model and good relations with the community, explains Terence Dougherty, chief...

IC&RC and NAADAC commit to transparency in merger talks.(Certification and Reciprocity Consortium)(National Certification Commission of NAADAC)
September 5, 2005... As merger talks continue between the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC), the IC&RC's fledgling Society of Credentialed Addiction Professionals (S.CAP), and the National Certification Commission of NAADAC, The...

SAMHSA grants announced amid criticism of Bush methamphetamine policy.(Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration)
September 5, 2005... The national press followed three top administration officials to Nashville August 18 to cover their announcement that the administration was embarking on an initiative against methamphetamine. Highlighted was $16.2 million in substance abuse...

Feds consider requiring nutritional information on alcohol labels.
September 5, 2005... Should alcoholic beverages consistently have information on their labels about calories, alcohol and other ingredients, as do other food and beverage products? After being petitioned by a health group, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade...

Neurotransmitter orexin linked to drug-seeking as well as feeding, arousal, and sleep.(orexin)
September 5, 2005... It's been only seven years since two sets of researchers almost simultaneously discovered the neurotransmitter orexin (sometimes called hypocretin). A paper in last year's Annual Review of Psychology called those studies a landmark in recent...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 5, 2005... A headline on page 3 of the August 15 issue of ADAW was incorrect. It read "Surgeon General: Substance abuse problems affect 87% of the disabled." The 87 percent actually refers to the percentage of people with disabilities who have a condition...

Practical approach to treating nicotine dependence.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... A recent statistic indicates that almost 16 percent of 12th graders use cigarettes daily. In a study published in the September issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dr. Himanshu Upadhyaya, M.B.B.S....

Drunk-driving deaths decrease nationally.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that nationwide, drunken-driving deaths dropped slightly in 2004, including declines in 32 states. The Washington Post reported August 22 that Minnesota was the 50th state...

Coming up ...(Calendar)
September 5, 2005... Faces and Voices of Recovery will sponsor a 3-day summit to kick off recovery month: "Rising! Recovery in Action 2005 Summit" will take place Sept. 6-8 in Arlington, Va. Highlights include speeches by Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of NIDA, and...

In case you haven't heard ...(social aspects of heroin addiction)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... One reason for heroin addicts' relapsing may be that they are mourning the loss of their "love affair" with the needle, a University at Buffalo doctoral student has found. For her study, Davina Moss interviewed 12 heroin addicts going through...

Prescription opioid addiction leads many to methadone treatment.(Exclusive news)
September 26, 2005... Purdue Pharma and the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD)--odd bedfellows, one might think. One, a drug company that specializes in prescription opioids for pain relief; the other, an organization that...

Bill would bring Pennsylvania drug program office into cabinet.
September 26, 2005... When the Pennsylvania legislature returns this week, they will consider a proposal that could, if passed into law, improve the world of substance abuse treatment for residents of the commonwealth as well as for treatment providers there. The...

Hurricane efforts bring a working celebration on Counselors' Day at NAADAC.(National Addiction Counselors' Day)
September 26, 2005... Even as they were holding open house celebrations for the fourth annual National Addiction Counselors' Day, September 20, headquarters staff at NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, were fielding calls and organizing efforts to...

Past-month methamphetamine abuse and dependence up sharply.(2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health )(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... Methampetamine use did not go up from 2002 to 2004, but use characterized as abuse or dependence did. In teasing out the figures from the 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), federal officials have found that abuse or dependence...

Electronic patient questionnaires effective in assessing depression and substance abuse: PBH.
September 26, 2005... Depression and substance abuse must both be addressed in order for either to improve, according to a new study from PacifiCare Behavioral Health (PBH). Furthermore, the study shows that therapists assessing patients for depression miss 70...

Funding treatment with a sales tax increase.(Briefly noted)(Jefferson County Washington)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... The Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader reported September 14 that residents of Jefferson County consume more alcohol than the rest of the state of Washington. According to the County Department of Public Health, one in five adults in the...

Phoenix House graduates celebrate sobriety.(Briefly noted)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... Phoenix House has announced the September 20 graduation of 30 individuals from its Venice, California facility at the West Angeles Church. The guest speaker, Lewis Yablonsky, spoke to graduates celebrating their completion of the program and...

New Jersey's young adults lead nation in heroin use.(Briefly noted)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... Although a recent survey suggests that marijuana is the most-used illegal drug in New Jersey (30 percent reported having tried it at least once), the 2003 New Jersey Household Survey on Drug Use and Health indicates that heroin use among 18- to...

Journal dedicated to link between drinking and cancer.(Briefly noted)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... A recent issue of the journal Alcohol (Volume 35) was dedicated to current research on the relationship between alcohol consumption and cancer risk. The journal introduces the topic by summarizing the issues addressed at an international...

Sharp increase in drugs in schools.(Briefly noted)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... A 2005 national survey sponsored by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) indicates that since 2002, the number of students who attend schools where drugs are "used, kept or sold" has jumped 41...

SAMHSA awards "big checks" to Conn. & D.C.(Briefly noted)(Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... According to Charles G. Curie, administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), roughly 8.1 percent of Connecticut's and 8.6 percent of the District of Columbia's populations have a serious mental...

Coming up ...(Calendar)
September 26, 2005... Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 10:00 a.m. in Upper Senate Park, on the north side of the U.S. Capitol Building,Washington,D.C. Hundreds of activists are expected to attend for...

In case you haven't heard ...(H & M fires Kate Moss)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... When clothing chain giant H&M fired supermodel Kate Moss over her cocaine use, it did so not because of its own initial reaction. Originally, the plan was to give the 31-year-old model a "second chance," according to a report in The New York...